{"id":18607,"date":"2020-02-20T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18607"},"modified":"2020-02-20T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:53:28","slug":"mind-body-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18607","title":{"rendered":"Mind, Body, Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DIi0DRq6ww\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/stuck-in-the-body-2020-02-20\/\">Stuck in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Body<\/a>&nbsp;<br>Thursday, February 20, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the West, we rely predominately on \u201chead\u201d knowledge<\/em><em>,<\/em><em>&nbsp;but our hearts offer us plenty of<\/em><em>&nbsp;information as well through powerful experience of awe and empathy, joy and heartbreak (even if we choose to&nbsp;<\/em><em>dismiss<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>it<\/em><em>&nbsp;most of the time<\/em><em>)<\/em><em>.<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>But it seems to me that we have lost or ignored the wisdom of the body almost completely. I have often taught<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>that if we are not transformed by our pain, we will<\/em><em>&nbsp;almost&nbsp;<\/em><em>certainly<\/em><em>&nbsp;transmit it<\/em><em>&nbsp;to those around us,<\/em><em>&nbsp;and I am learning that we pass it on to future generations as well. A<\/em><em>uthor and therapist&nbsp;<\/em><em>Resmaa<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Menakem<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>speaks<\/em><em>&nbsp;directly about&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u201cbodily knowing\u201d and&nbsp;<\/em><em>the transmission of&nbsp;<\/em><em>trauma<\/em><em>&nbsp;from a historical&nbsp;<\/em><em>and corporate&nbsp;<\/em><em>perspective<\/em><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our bodies have a form of knowledge that is different from our cognitive brains. This knowledge is typically experienced as a felt sense of constriction or expansion, pain or ease, energy or numbness. Often this knowledge is stored in our bodies as wordless stories about what is safe and what is dangerous. . .&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body is where we live. It\u2019s where we fear, hope, and react. It\u2019s where we constrict and relax. And what the body most cares about are safety and survival. When something happens to the body that is too much, too fast, or too soon, it overwhelms the body and can create trauma. . .&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trauma is not primarily an emotional response. [It] always happens&nbsp;<em>in the body<\/em>. . .&nbsp;.&nbsp;Trauma is the body\u2019s protective response to an event\u2014or a series of events\u2014that [the body] perceives as potentially dangerous. This perception may be accurate, inaccurate, or entirely imaginary. . .&nbsp;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An embedded trauma response can manifest as fight, flee, or freeze\u2014or as some combination of constriction, pain, fear,&nbsp;. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;reactive behaviors, or other sensations and experiences.&nbsp;This trauma then gets stuck in the body\u2014and stays&nbsp;stuck&nbsp;there until it is addressed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Menakem<\/em><em>&nbsp;explains how&nbsp;<\/em><em>layers<\/em><em>&nbsp;of trauma have&nbsp;<\/em><em>built up in the<\/em><em>&nbsp;United States:<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America is tearing itself apart. On the surface, this war looks like the natural outcome of many recent social and political clashes. But it\u2019s not. These conflicts are anything but recent. One hundred and fifty-six years ago, they spawned the American Civil War. But even in the 1860s, these conflicts were already centuries old. They began in Europe during the Middle Ages, where they tore apart close to two million white bodies. The resulting tension came to America embedded in the bodies of Europeans, and it has remained in the bodies of many of their descendants. Over the past three centuries, that tension has been both soothed and deepened by the invention of whiteness and the resulting racialization of American culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first glance, today\u2019s manifestation of this conflict appears to be a struggle for political and social power.&nbsp;. . .&nbsp;While we see anger and violence in the streets of our country, the real battlefield is inside our bodies. If we are to survive as a country it is inside our bodies where this conflict will need to be resolved. . .&nbsp;.&nbsp;If we are to upend the status quo of white-body supremacy, we must begin with our bodies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Body&nbsp;Thursday, February 20, 2020 In the West, we rely predominately on \u201chead\u201d knowledge,&nbsp;but our hearts offer us plenty of&nbsp;information as well through powerful experience of awe and empathy, joy and heartbreak (even if we choose to&nbsp;dismiss&nbsp;it&nbsp;most of the time).&nbsp;But it seems to me that we have lost or ignored the wisdom of the body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18609,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18607\/revisions\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}